| PLAINFIELD: Library painting on loan for Chicago exhibit
A painting officials call "the finest and most noteworthy" in Plainfield Public Library's collection is on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago for an upcoming exhibit there. "Looking Over the Cliff," an 1882 watercolor by Winslow Homer, will be part of the "Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light" exhibit, which runs from Feb. 16 to May 10, library officials said in a statement.
The library's painting will be one of 130 watercolors, drawings and oil paintings featured in the exhibit. Under tight security, the painting left Plainfield earlier this week and arrived Wednesday in Chicago in the middle of a storm that delivered 15 inches of snow.
Library Director Joseph Da Rold and the facility's Board of Trustees have been working with the exhibit curator since October 2006.
Judge: Alamo Elementary to remain closed
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USC freshman puts on show for UW faithful
Moments before tipoff Thursday night at Hec Edmundson Pavilion, the Dawg Pack unleashed a predictable "Hold the Mayo" chant. If only it were that easy. Ovinton J'Anthony Mayo, better known as USC freshman phenom O.J. Mayo, spent the next two hours befuddling a Huskies men's basketball team desperately seeking a breath of life in this rugged Pac-10 season. Mayo, the prize of last year's national prep recruits, poured in 29 points against Washington, 20 in the first half alone, as the Trojans rolled to a 73-59 win. The 6-foot-5 guard dropped in 3-pointers, slammed home a breakaway dunk, went behind his back in traffic for a lay-in and, oh yeah, played pretty good defense in his spare time. For the Huskies, it was the latest onslaught endured from an opposing star, following a 33-point night from Cal's Ryan Anderson, a 31-point effort from Stanford's Brook Lopez and a 26-point showing by Arizona freshman Jerryd Bayless.
Bulldogs a rare breed
Many elements have come together this season to create the magical story of the Drake basketball team. Start with a downtrodden bunch of players, picked for a ninth-place finish in the Missouri Valley Conference. But they've overachieved beyond any of their wildest dreams. So far, it's resulted in a 23-2 record, a national ranking as high as 14th and the program's first MVC championship (clinched Saturday at Northern Iowa) since a tri-title in 1970-71. Continue with a rookie head coach, 35-year-old Keno Davis, who arrived in Des Moines, Iowa, five years ago as an assistant for his renowned coaching father, Dr. Tom Davis, and had the foresight to tweak the system to best showcase the seemingly limited talent he had on hand. And finally, hats off to the team's longtime supporters who have, since that championship season 37 years ago, endured 31 second-division finishes, including 11 seasons ending in last place.
Hardware Report: Shipments of LCD TVs Surpass CRT TVs
DisplaySearch released a report this week that shows for the first time ever LCD TV shipments outpacing CRT TVs worldwide in Q4 2007. According to the report, global TV shipments grew 21% quarter to quarter and 5% year to year. The total number of TVs shipped was nearly 200 million units worldwide. 2007 was the first year where TV revenues exceeded $100 billion with Q4 2007 revenues alone counting for $32.9 billion of that number. DisplaySearch says that LCD unit share grew worldwide, but the strongest growth in LCD unit share was seen in Europe. Developing nations showed the greatest increase in LCD unit share with Latin America, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa rising a combined 106% year over year. CRT TV shipments fell from 77% of global TV shipments in Q1 2006 to 46% of global shipments in Q4 2007.
Auction-rate securities
AUCTION-RATE SECURITIES are debts that mature 10, 15 or 20 years in the future, but which change hands frequently -- as often as every seven, 28 or 35 days. The interest rates on the securities change with each auction. Lately, bidders have been scarce or nonexistent for some of these auctions, drastically deflating the value of the securities. .
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The vote count turned against the opposition leader, Raila Odinga, a Luo who also has broad support among the Kalenjin majority in the Rift Valley, in suspicious circumstances. But Magure and other Kikuyu from the town who are now refugees in a stadium in Nakuru, the area's major town 26 miles to the south, said the election dispute was a pretext and that the assault on them was a planned move driven by long-standing enmity from the Kalenjin that amounts to ethnic cleansing. She named Chelelgo and another councillor, Charles Koskei, as among those responsible. "We got the threats that we have to leave that place even during the election campaign. They said we are Kikuyu, we don't belong there. It was the Kalenjin youths but it was also the politicians, these councillors and chiefs.
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